Middlesex Hicks Hall 21st. March 1781.

Minutes of the Committee appointed to carry into immediate
and effectual Execution the Repair of New Prison and Clerkenwell
Bridewell

Present
William Mainwarring< no role > Esqr . in the Chair
The Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
James Croft< no role > Esqr .
John Barnfather< no role > Esqr .
David Walker< no role > Esqr .
Thomas Bishop< no role > Esqr .
Charles Sheppard< no role > Esqr .
William Blackbown< no role > Esqr .

William Kitchiner< no role > Esqr .
Joseph Girdler< no role > Esqr
William Gregson< no role > Esqr
John Wright< no role > Esqr .
Thomas Brooksbank< no role > Esqr .

The Minutes of the last Meeting being read

Resolved that the Memorandums of the State of
Newgate made from the account given by the under Keepers and persons
belonging to the Keeper thereof at the time when the Committee viewed
and Examined the said Goal be inserted as part of the Minutes of this
Committee

Memorandums of the State of Newgate made from the
account given by the under Keepers and Persons belonging to the
Keeper there of at the time when the Committee received and Examined
the said Goal

Viewed Newgate the Sheriffs attending Found the
Goal in a ruinous State except the old Calls, in which were only Eleven
Convicts under Sentence of death and no other Prisoner in the whole Goal

Newgate Consisted of Three Quadrangles of rearly
the same size besides the old Calls and an Infirmary now building

Viewed the middle Quadrangle for felons in which also
is the chapel all of which appear in rains except a few Rooms on the
Mastors side now repairing were told that this Quadrangle before destoryed
consisted of about 20 Rooms which would hold about 15 in a Room
upon an average

Viewed the South Quadrangle for Women felons found
it wholly destroyed except part of the Walls and Still laying in the same
State in which the Rioters left it

Viewed the North Quadrangle called the Debtors
Quadrangle which appeared entirely destroyed except part of the Walls. the